Expectations

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

We believe that:

• students should be encouraged to adopt behaviours that support learning and promote good relationships;
• poor behaviour and low-level disruption threaten the rights of young people to an effective education and can lead to people feeling unsafe, bullied, intimidated, or threatened.
• Our Behaviour and Rewards Policy (available within our policy page) seeks to encourage young people to have high expectations of themselves in all areas of academy life, make positive choices and re-enforces those choices through praise.

Our ethos enables sustained concentration in lessons, rewards effort and allows learning to flourish. 

We call our behaviour strategy the Choice System.

The purpose of our Choices System is to;

• place the focus on learning … not behaviour
• place the emphasis on positive attitudes to learning
• provide a consistent and fair whole academy approach to behaviour
• implement a system where high expectations are ensured, negative behaviour choices have consequences, and positive behaviour results in praise.